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Douglas, overlooking the lake, as they pass by the spot where the remains of the electric statesman, are at rest. It was Oliver Wendell Holmes who said that it is the incidental part of a man’s life which interests the people. There was a good deal of this sort of thing in the Douglas family.- There runs through the story of that family a thread of the uncommon. The country knows all about the political career of the man 'who faced Lincoln in debate, and who became the idolized leader of his party in the north. There was some- thing in the disappointmem' cf the man that touched the sensibilities of his op- ponents, as there is always and ever will be something pathetic in the fail- ure of one who expires when within grasp of a long cherished hope. A picture of the house in which Doug- las was born was recently taken at the suggestion of his only living sister, Mrs. Sarah Granger, now 84 years old, and still living on the old farm near Clifton Springs, N. Y., on which she was mar- ,ried, and which was opened up by her husband's father, Hezekiah Granger, in 1799. The father of Douglas, whose name was also Stephen A. —-the Little Giant being the fourth Stephen A. in direct line—was standing before the big fire- place in hishome atBrandon, Vt. , with his son, then two months old, in his arms. The father’ s heart was affected, and he let the child fall from his grasp. The father fell dead. The child fell in- to the ashes, and but for instantaneous rescue would have met a horrible death. The mother of Douglas was Sarah Fisk, and she was the second cousin of Jim Fisk of picturesque career and tragic end. Referring to the incidentals of a man 5 career, here is anothei of more than passing interest, inasmuch as it furnishes the key to the coming of young Douglas into the west. There was a man who lived on a his father near Clifton ger. His father was Hezekiah Granger. The son was in the habit of visiting Brandon, Vt., 110- do his courting. He married Miss Sarah Douglas. She was the sister of Stephen A. Douglas, and . followed him 111 all his career, even un- to his death, and then came on here to Chicago to watch the building of the ‘monument to the memory of one whom . she still refers to as the “best man that ever lived.” Young Granger returned to the Old homestead. near the Springs 'f h H h at once declared that his boy’ETfiffiv’as a. “mighty fine woman,” and asked if there was any of the stock left, for Heze- kiah Was in his weeds. The boy told his father that his bride’s , mother was liv- ing, and was likewise in her weeds. Hezekiah hitchedgup his team and made. a pilgrimage to Brandon, Va, where he “made up an acquaintance” with the Widow Douglas, and soon after they were married? Thus the boy had a mother-in-law and a stepmother in one, _ and the old gentleman became the step- father to his daughter-in-law. To- the old farm in New York came Stephen A. Douglas, and while there he heard about the chances for young men in the west, and concluded to come out. The story of the penniless young man who reached Illinois, and afterward became one of its senators, is as familiar in II- linois as isthe life of Washington in Virginia. ' The morning young Douglas left the house on the old Granger farm his . mother walked with him down to the gate that opened out into the lane and into the United States senate, and put her arms around her boy’s neck and kissed him goodby. “When are you coming back to see your old mother?” she asked him. “On my way to congress,” was the prophetic reply. There is a Patgms that rises across the way of some mortals. A good many years went by, and the faithful mother used to go down to the gate of the lawn and look along the lane and go back again unconsoled. One day she saw a man coming, and, though he had grown and had some of that tired look in his face which the west imprinted on its young men, the woman knew this was her boy. He held in his hand his certificate of election to the lower houseof the national congress from the district in which he lived in Illinois. He was on his way to congress. Long years after this, when the young man had scars upon his political armor, made in centest with the giants of .those days, and when he was in the race for the White House wreath and the press of the opposition was vindictive in its attack upon him, Douglas stopped on his return from Washington to visit-his mother, who had in the meantime mov- _ ed up near the Canadian border. The wagon roads were filled with the plain peopleof that section who assembled at the station to meet the presidential can- didate. The old woman threw her arms about the neck of her boy in the pres- ence of the multitude, and cried out, ”Ah, they do not know my boy as I do or they would not say what they do about him”-—-referring to the attacks of the opposition. And the son, forgetting for the moment that he was in a presi- ‘ dential contest, embraced the old lady and responded in the hearing of the concourse, “Thank God, I have found my mother. ”—Chicago Chronicle. ‘ Libel once meant any little book, but as many small tracts in the early days "of printing :‘were personal and oflensive in. character the word acquired its pres- ent signific . COME IN WITH THE TIDE ._ Of merry sightseers—the bright-eyed, flush-checked Xmas shoppers, and [in- spect our,immense line of HOLIDAY FURNITURE PARLOR , " . BEDROOM and DINING-ROOMSIJITS. DESKS and . GHIFFONIERES In Oak and Curley Birch. Plush and Gobbler Seat Chan's Just the thing for a. Xmas. Present. 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